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Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: viii, 303 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107032927
  • 9781107659704 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9/20973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ755.5.U5 H36 2013
Contents:
Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.

Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.

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